5 Key Questions you Should Ask Yourself when Considering a New Career…(06/03/18)

Here’s a question for you – What do you do if you find you’re ready to leave academic research, but you don’t know what you want to do next? Answer- Research the opportunities! Whilst this answer is clearly intuitive, it’s also daunting when you don’t know where to start. So how do you start exploring … Read more

Are you empowered or trapped by your biomedical research education? (Part 1 of 4) (27/02/18)

My story 17 years ago I took a commercial graduate position as a quality control (QC) laboratory technician at a medical devices company. After only a few months, the job itself quickly became monotonous and to be frank, altogether downright tedious. This was due to the repetitive nature of the lab tests being conducted on … Read more

Woes of UK biomedical researchers and alternative career options (16/01/18)

Introduction Few would argue that the pursuit of detailed understanding into how the human body functions in order to develop safe and effective cures for diseases suffered by the global population would constitute a highly worthy, and critically important endeavour for anyone to undertake as a life’s work. This is the role of the biomedical … Read more